Once I get home I want to empty my pockets. Sometimes the problem can be finding those things again when I leave – especially the keys! The Butler is a simple idea for a wall-mounted fitting that holds wallet and keys in the top slot, and a side slot designed to fit a smartphone, screen out, […]
If you use a smartphone then you’ve probably got used to terrible battery life. You might have forked out for an external battery pack or something else to help extend the battery life. So a new “take” on charging phones probably isn’t that surprising. What is, however, a little surprising is the way this one […]
RTÉ and the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland (IBI) have done a deal with UK company Radioplayer to provide 43 Irish radio stations on the Radioplayer platform by early December. Developed in the UK, Radioplayer already provides a similar service for UK stations and has also launched in Norway, Belgium and Germany. Consisting of a desktop player, […]
Popular photo sharing service Twitpic was meant to be shutting down definitively today and taking with it all its content. The shutdown came as a result of a dispute between Twitpic and Twitter over trademarks and API access. However earlier this evening Twitpic announced via their blog that they’d reached an agreement with Twitter. While […]
Lisa Maree Domican is a social entrepreneur, creator of the Grace App, which was inspired by her experience of raising two children with autism. Although she has a strong business background, Lisa admits she knew little about technology until she saw an ad for the newly launched iPhone and realised it could be a platform to help her daughter to communicate. Last year […]
XKCD author Randall Munroe has been playing with iOS8 predictive text, and some famous movie quotes.
On Monday Twitter announced that they are testing a ‘Buy button’, with a limited introduction beginning in the US. Stripe, founded by the Collison Brothers from Limerick, is one of five companies providing payment services for the new Twitter feature. On Tuesday, Apple revealed an NFC-based payment functionality for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone […]
Yesterday’s Apple product announcements are probably the least surprising there have ever been. The much anticipated iWatch turns out to be much more sensibly named as Apple Watch, and the iPhone 6 is bigger, better and comes in regular and ‘Plus’ sizes. You wanted a big phone? You got two. iPhone 6 is 4.7 inches with 38% more […]
They’ve embraced the web and social media and they’re hiring geeks for their “innovation hub” in Swords, complete with giant chess and multi-coloured cubicles (we can’t confirm the existence of beanbags). But the flight path to online success is fraught with turbulence, and the response to Ryanair’s new mobile app, launched yesterday, can be described as mixed. The […]
While “classic Uber” might not be affordable for everyone, it’s not the only service that Uber offers. Depending on the city you’re in you can choose from a number of Uber services. This weekend UberX launched in Dublin. UberX is described as: uberX is the new cashless, low-cost taxi option in Dublin. All uberX partners […]
